[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 561 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 561

   To authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of the 
  Congress to Mrs. Yaffa Eliach in recognition of her outstanding and 
enduring contributions toward scholarship about the Holocaust, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 8, 1999

  Mr. Schumer introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
    referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of the 
  Congress to Mrs. Yaffa Eliach in recognition of her outstanding and 
enduring contributions toward scholarship about the Holocaust, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds that--
            (1) Yaffa Eliach is professor of history and literature in 
        the Department of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College;
            (2) Yaffa Eliach is a pioneer scholar in Holocaust Studies 
        and was among a small number of academics who introduced 
        Holocaust Studies to colleges and universities in the United 
        States;
            (3) Yaffa Eliach founded the first Center of Holocaust 
        Studies in the United States and served as its director until 
        1991;
            (4) Yaffa Eliach created the acclaimed ``Tower of Life'' at 
        the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, 
        D.C.;
            (5) Yaffa Eliach is a poet, historian, and playwright 
        dedicated to providing education about the Holocaust;
            (6) Yaffa Eliach is an esteemed contributor to scholarly, 
        literary, and popular publications and programs in the United 
        States, Canada, Israel, Europe, and Australia; and
            (7) Yaffa Eliach has been recognized and honored for her 
        outstanding accomplishments by many governmental, academic, and 
        other institutions around the world.

SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL.

    (a) Presentation Authorized.--The President is authorized to 
present, on behalf of the Congress, a gold medal of appropriate design 
to Yaffa Eliach in recognition of her outstanding and enduring 
contributions toward scholarship about the Holocaust.
    (b) Design and Striking.--For purposes of the presentation referred 
to in subsection (a), the Secretary of the Treasury (hereafter in this 
Act referred to as the ``Secretary'') shall strike a gold medal with 
suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions, to be determined by the 
Secretary.
    (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated $20,000 to carry out this section.

SEC. 3. DUPLICATE MEDALS.

    (a) Striking and Sale.--The Secretary may strike and sell 
duplicates in bronze of the gold medal struck pursuant to section 2 
under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, at a price 
sufficient to cover the cost thereof, including labor, materials, dies, 
use of machinery, overhead expenses, and the cost of the gold medal.
    (b) Proceeds of Sale.--The appropriation authorized in section 2 
shall be reimbursed out of the proceeds of sales under subsection (a).

SEC. 4. NATIONAL MEDALS.

    The medals struck pursuant to this Act are national medals for 
purposes of chapter 51 of title 31, United States Code.
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